BP Teesside hydrogen hub

By Ian Page

BP announced that alongside their 1GW of blue hydrogen production planned for Teesside. They intend 500MW of green hydrogen, which with a network of filling stations , and an agreement with Daimler trucks is enough for 32,000 trucks.

There are some obvious questions.

  1. Where are they going to get the methane from for the blue hydrogen, where are they going to sequester it, and how confident are they that the cost of their main input which is  natural gas is going to get cheaper , since it now costs more to use natural gas than electrolysis. ( and Asia generally has a large deficit in natural gas and is buying the LNG that BP would need. BP has a large LNG output from Australia, but they can probably get more for it from Asia and China, and anyway why not process it to Hydrogen in Australia and sell the hydrogen to Singapore (one of the projects being discussed). 
  2. The next obvious question is where are they going to get the electricity for electrolysis. If it comes from the grid it carries a large grid surcharge, If they make it themselves it's going to be from natural gas presumably with CCS which makes it expensive. The best source is from north sea   wind delivered directly i.e. not via grid , but that is going to be only available 50% of the time. But it will be cheaper than the options.

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